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Export License Violation Lands Three in Hot Water

The United States Attorney’s Office for Middle District of Pennsylvania announced a correction today in a press release issued on April 23, 2014 concerning an indictment presented by the grand jury in December 2012.

The indictment was sealed until the filing of a criminal information on April 23, 2014 against Hetran Inc., an engineering and manufacturing plant in Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania and its Chief Executive, Helmut Oertmann, relating to the same charges.

When the indictment was unsealed the press release incorrectly stated that Suniel Malhotra, an Indian citizen, was one of the defendants. In fact, the charges against Mr. Malhorta were dismissed in 2013 at the request of the government.

Three Iranian citizens and two Iranian firms are defendants in the indictment. The charges involve the shipment of industrial equipment to Iran in 2012 in violation of U.S. export license requirements.

It is alleged that Hetran Inc. and Helmut Oertmann, its Chief Executive, knowingly and willfully violated U.S. export license requirements by shipping industrial equipment to Iran in 2012. The indictment charges the company and its CEO with conspiracy, making false statements, and violating U.S. export controls.

The indictment is a result of an investigation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) in coordination with the IRS-Criminal Investigation and the FBI.

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney, Robert J. O’Hara and Trial Attorney, John J. Taddeus of the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section.